Ryland

“Stifling an obscene oath, I went back up the steps at a run, but I was locking the stable when the horse was already at the airport with a false passport.”
― Mike Carey

“Could it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway.”
― Mike Carey, Thicker Than Water

“I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.”
― Glen Cook, The Silver Spike

“The light of a hunter's moon bleached the unresisting pastels from the faces of the towers, so that they looked like titanic ribs of bone, and shadows accrued like crusted blood under the walkways.”
― Mike Carey, Thicker Than Water